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Celonis vs Microsoft Power Automate comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Celonis
Ranking in Process Mining
3rd
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
47
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Microsoft Power Automate
Ranking in Process Mining
2nd
Average Rating
7.8
Number of Reviews
124
Ranking in other categories
Robotic Process Automation (RPA) (2nd)
 

Featured Reviews

Uday Nath - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 19, 2024
Graphical interpretation and pre-built connectors with competitive pricing
I use Celonis primarily for identifying high potential use cases where customers will benefit post automation. It provides insights into which areas to target by identifying pain points and high error percentages Celonis helps our organization by supporting digital transformation initiatives. Our…
Ayush S - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 15, 2023
The solution is cost-effective and provides excellent AI features, but the tool must be more stable and provide more integration with other applications
We can automate cloud flows using the product. We can use desktop flows in the product as an RPA tool. If we are working on any enterprise application like SAP, we can automate it using the tool. Power Automate Desktop is a relatively newer solution compared to UiPath The solution helps us save…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten. Celonis is a wonderful tool, so you cannot find any drawbacks at the right moment."
"We use the tool for supply chain transformation. The tool has helped us find the bottlenecks in the supply chain like where the delay occurred in delivery, payment, etc. We had to extract two years' of data from the SAP system and an internal tool. We fed the data into Celonis and it created a process map for us with hundreds of variations. It has helped us see where exactly the bottleneck was. The tool has also helped us generate a lot of reviews and KPIs. It has helped us to find the problem and the remedy through process optimization."
"Its usage is relatively straightforward after the UI is set up. There's a lot of pre-built analysis that can be utilized, which saves a lot of time. Overall, it is a good product."
"Celonis has helped me to identify and prioritize process improvement areas. Because we understand the end-to-end lead time, including waiting times and areas where rework happens, we can see the performance bottlenecks."
"The real-time replication was just implemented and is quite useful."
"What I found most valuable in Celonis is the ease of use. I also like that users can compare and contrast and derive any KPIs, keep track and see what's happening within the process via Celonis."
"It provides seamless unified views with awesome drill down options."
"Celonis' best feature is a new one called Action Flow, an enhanced version of earlier automation features with lots of integration options with other systems so you can access third-party systems and automate some actions there too."
"The best feature of the tool is that it is generic, so it allows one to do as he wishes."
"The initial setup isn't too difficult."
"I believe document reading has been beneficial when dealing with Microsoft."
"Automation is the best feature of the product."
"The best part is the automated workflow, which is quite good and easy. It is just drag-and-drop. We are able to create workflows quite quickly. We are able to directly integrate the data that it generates with Power BI dashboards. Its integration is quite good with other Microsoft tools, such as Power BI. The visualization of the data has become helpful for us."
"The solution has saved us hours of work."
"The solution is easy to understand and to develop connectors."
"Triggering and scheduling were pretty good. There was no real commitment with WinAutomation because the licensing was very fair and you could trigger bots very easily."
 

Cons

"The Process Query Language (PQL) native language used in Celonis needs improvements. It has most of the process-related functions but we have queries from clients that cannot be done in PQL."
"The way they manage the data should also be improved. There is a lot of room for improvement there because a lot of duplicated data gets created, which should be improved. There should be ease of data management and code management."
"The price is high for us."
"The solution must be more user-friendly."
"With every upgrade, the product is completely changed."
"They should provide a community edition license so that everyone can deploy or install it on their own system and get more hands-on experience with the product."
"Celonis' data engineering processes should be transformed into a low-code structure"
"They should leverage the solution's machine learning algorithms."
"The product should improve its RPA capabilities."
"Things need to be improved with respect to RPA kinds of solutions."
"There is an RPA feature gap between this solution and other more mature products."
"The connectors and the integration capability can be improved. Microsoft RPA is a growing platform, and it is not yet particularly mature."
"It is mostly integrated with the Microsoft environment. Unlike UiPath, we cannot really use external tools with Microsoft Power Automate. There should be a possibility to integrate it with external tools or systems."
"Power Automate is too complicated - it forces you to go through extra tasks instead of streamlining your workflow."
"It would be good to have some kind of on-premises solution for BPMN users, but I don't think Microsoft will ever go back to the on-premises solution. They all train their clients to use their online services. It is easy, but it doesn't follow the industry-wide standards. I can only use the processes that Microsoft gives us. I can't map a business process by using other standards or notations, such as Business Process Management (BPM). I have to use whatever Microsoft gives us. I would like to have support for some standards because if we decide to use another BPM tomorrow, we will have to remap everything in notation to transfer from this solution. This is the only block or obstacle that I see in using this solution. It is closed in its infrastructure."
"It doesn't have any OCR capabilities."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is quite expensive."
"The solution requires an annual license. There is room for improvement because it is priced for organizations and not for individuals. For an individual, it would be too expensive for them to use it."
"The price could be better. If you ask a customer, they will always say it's highly-priced. In my personal opinion, the cost can be at the lower end. I think it's suitable for large organizations at this point in time."
"Celonis offers free learning possibilities. I am using the free version of Celonis."
"Once we try to scale it up, the product becomes expensive."
"The solution is expensive."
"Celonis is expensive, but it is functional."
"The solution’s pricing is based on APC. It charges you based on the amount of GV that you use."
"It is free with Office 365 subscription."
"Power Automate is comparatively less costly than UiPath."
"You can have two types of licenses, one is user-based, and the other is app-based in the Power Platform."
"It's more fragmented licensing, where every little thing that you add, you get an extra license cost."
"I believe one of the advantages of this device is its low cost."
"Licensing is on an annual basis."
"We are using the free version of Power Automate."
"There should be increased transparency about which features attend the pricing."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
13%
Manufacturing Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
10%
University
6%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Computer Software Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Government
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

Which is better - Signavio Process Manager or Celonis?
SAP Signavio Process Manager is a very robust industrial-grade business process modeling tool. It is easy to use and does not require too much technological involvement. This solution has a collabo...
What do you like most about Celonis?
Celonis, especially for high-risk finance-related processes, helped us make precise decisions and uncover hidden values within our architecture. It was one of the most significant values our busine...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Celonis?
Celonis is the most expensive solution in the market, and many customers are ready to migrate to more affordable solutions such as ARIS and SAP Signavio. Celonis must reduce its costs globally, esp...
RPA that Bots can run without centralized control?
Yes, Attended Bots which can run without centralized control Module. RPA Tools like Automation Anywhere, uiPath ,Power Automation they do support this.
How do I choose between UiPath and Microsoft Power Automate?
Microsoft‌ ‌Power‌ ‌Automate‌ ‌is‌ ‌intuitive‌ ‌and‌ ‌easy‌ ‌to‌ ‌integrate‌ ‌and‌ ‌use.‌ ‌I‌ ‌like‌ ‌that‌ ‌there‌ ‌is‌ ‌no‌ ‌coding‌ ‌experience‌ ‌necessary,‌ ‌and‌ ‌appreciate‌ ‌the‌ ‌automated‌...
How is Automation Anywhere compared to Microsoft Power Automate?
‌Neither‌ ‌solution‌ ‌requires‌ ‌any‌ ‌coding‌ ‌experience,‌ ‌and‌ ‌both‌ ‌are‌ ‌easy‌ ‌to‌ ‌use‌ ‌and‌ ‌have‌ ‌great‌ ‌drag-and‌ ‌drop‌ ‌functionality.‌ ‌The‌ ‌training‌ ‌and‌ ‌resources‌ ‌for‌ ‌A...
 

Also Known As

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Power Automate, Microsoft Flow, MS Power Automate, WinAutomation by Softomotive, ProcessRobot by Softomotive, Minit
 

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Sample Customers

Anheuser-Busch InBev, AXA, Bayer, Cisco, Deloitte, Deutsche Telekom, Hitachi, Kellogg's, Lufthansa, and Whirlpool
1. Coca-Cola 2. General Electric 3. Siemens 4. Accenture 5. Deloitte 6. Johnson & Johnson 7. Ford 8. Nestle 9. Procter & Gamble 10. IBM 11. Amazon 12. Google 13. Microsoft 14. Adobe 15. Cisco 16. Oracle 17. SAP 18. Intel 19. HP 20. Dell 21. Verizon 22. AT&T 23. T-Mobile 24. Walmart 25. Target 26. Home Depot 27. McDonald's 28. Starbucks 29. Nike 30. Apple 31. Facebook 32. Twitter
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